David Harper
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I posted this here because this forum gets more traffic than the maintenance forum. My car has 25k miles, so I looked at the air filter and it was real dirty. So I went to wallyworld and looked at the Fram replacement filter. Then I went to the honda dealer and the guy showed me the oem honda filter. The fram is $14.27 and the honda is $26.50. But the honda filter looked better.More pleats more densely packed(more surface area for filtration) and the filter element was dense, soft,and smooth, whereas the fram element was coarse, hard, and thin. So IMO this is clearly a case of getting what you pay for. Probably not a big deal,and maybe the fram would work fine but I opted for the oem honda filter.
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